No, Atheists Don't Have to Show "Respect" for Religion | Belief | AlterNet

John Lennon put it best:

I just open two internet explorers, copy the location from one and paste into the newsvine comment box on the other.

Well I use Chrome but the rest I do same and it just won't post.

There's a group called "newsvine help" that maybe you can somehow post the question to. I've never used it, but I see it in the list of groups.

Does anyone know why I can't use links? It's crazy. I see everyone using them but I can't. I am trying to put a link for Imagine from John Lennon.

Go to google..type in John lennon..go down the list and click on the one you want..when the youtube link opens, Highlight it in your address bar and copy and then hit paste in the post..let me know if it works for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

LOL I did exactly that. No go. It shows blank.

We'll pray for you, Andrew...;-)...♥♥♥

We'll pray for you, Andrew

Your funny deacon, however, other than contacting me if you need me to post it for you, I don't know what to tell you..Do you have a computer guy you rely on?

Does anyone know why I can't use links?

You're a new user. It takes a month or so before you can use links. It helps to curb spammers.

Ah, thanks!! At least I know why now.

Truth in the standard model of the system cannot be defined within the system.

Gee, where do I start......how about the assumption that the truth is available; the fundamental flaw of this 4 page article......

When faced with these different ideas, are you really going to shrug your shoulders, and say "My, how fascinating, look at all these different ideas, isn't it amazing how many ways people have of seeing God, what a magnificent tapestry of faith humanity has created"?

Do you really not care which of these ideas is, you know, true?

Why don't they compare notes and trade places and carefully examine the elephant and actually try to figure out what it is? You know -- the way we do in science?

Ok. Let's take a scientific journey to find the truth............

remember in school when they taught you that electrons, protons, and neutrons were tiny balls of matter. Even that is not always true. What? They taught us lies? No, they were teaching you in just a way that your young mind could have some kind of explanation of what is down there at that level. The electron is not really matter as we know it anyway, its just a cloud of energy. Ok, that's somewhat believable so far. Here is where you'll have to choke down some faith. Electrons, protons, neutrons are popping in and out of existence constantly. Scientists don't know why, they don't know where they go. They just know they do. New theories suggest parallel universes. Yes, I said it - parallel universes. This is real science, darn it! I'm just the messenger. This is not some quack pot writing this webpage. (Ok, so maybe I'm a little strange). This stuff is true science as far as our feeble minds can comprehend. It gets even weirder with the Double Slit Experiment so stick around. To explain this experiment, we first must truly grasp the difference between a particle and a wave.

Hummmm, what is all this talk about faith coming from the scientific community?????

please read the rest of this at.......

http://www.doubleslitexperiment.com/

also .....

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=the+slit+experiment

If the author loathes hypocrisy, give up the notion of having superior knowledge, and that the rest of the world are fools. Otherwise, you face becoming what you loath the most (a person drowning in a sea of self righteous foolishness). If, the author cannot except the bitterness of this advice then perhaps the author should dispense the time revealing to all of us what the truth is. I read a long list of criticism, but no evidence of what the truth is, thereby, the author failed to seal the convictions of the presumed flawed ideas being prosecuted.

Albeit, it is likely that every religion is flawed, but it is one thing to try and fail and another to have an obsessive preoccupation of mocking those that miss the mark. This is all that atheists offer to the debate, and the reason that they are not welcomed with open arms. What does atheism offer that is different then the circular logic of religion? If i say no one knows the truth, how can my statement be true, since inclusively, i too don't know what the truth is? i could be wrong..........All of it is circular logic. The athiest beats religion over the head with their atheistic blind mans walking cane because religion attempted to walk while being blind.

You may take the position that if it if it is impossible to know the truth then trying is an act of vanity? However, life and everything under the sun is vanity, and yet, I don't see herds of atheist jumping off of cliffs to avoid participating in said vanity. We are all adorned with the emperors clothing, which are made of the finest threads of lies that can only be found in our personal kingdom of hypocrisy. We are all nakedly presumptuous...............

So I say to her easy does it and enjoy your beliefs as I do muine

Good advice Ray. We should all be able to enjoy our beliefs, whether we believe in a deity or not.

In my personal view, absolute truths stand independently of man's belief or unbelief in them. I can say that the concept of gravity is not a truth, however gravity is not dependent on my belief in it to exist. I can say that earth is planar and not round, but I would be wrong, as my belief does not change the reality of the truth.

We group ourselves and subdivide ourselves into various units, but I think when it all comes down, we will all stand or fall as individuals on our own decisions and beliefs.

Peace.